When being hired for a freelance agency production when does the day rate start / end ? Re: if it’s a four week timeline, I assume you are not getting 4wk of day rates?

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this is negotiable. at some point the agency may ask for a volume discount of sorts on a longer contract. but one month isn’t incredibly long so you should start your negotiations at the full day rate at that time

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I have always done bid to post, all at a day rate or a negotiated weekly

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Okay thank you! Is it typical for an agency to take a job through bidding and award with an internal Pm/Prod. And then hand off to freelance ?

For a producer w 3 years agency experience what would a good weekly rate be?

I don’t do discounts. If they want to book me for a month or longer I’ll count all of the week days and add them up. If I already know specific weekend days I’ll add those in as well. If I’m not sure about weekends then I get it in writing that the weekend days are not included in the agreement and I will be paid my day rate for any weekend day worked.

And yes, it is common for the job to be handed to me after the award.

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